Miss Saône-et-Loire 2015

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6 pm. I’ve just come back from Lyon by train and it’s already time for me to head back to the opening ceremony of the election of Miss Saône-et-Loire 2015, a cocktail reception enlivened by the exceptional presence of our beautiful Miss France 2015, Camille Cerf, and Miss Burgundy 2014, Janyce Guillot.

To be entirely honest with you, I’m not a big fan of these mundanities but I find them sociologically-speaking very interesting to observe, even slightly amusing sometimes… although I never really find any ounce of amusement in the superficiality and spiritual frivolity of some people.

It is unfortunately an ambiance that’s been found again in the audience during the election – at least on the adults’ side – composed of evil people, greedy for glory and for a single ray of light.

It always makes me very sad to see how everything – today – revolves around the same grotesque trivialities, i.e. glory, power and money. It is disastrous, shameful and pathetic!

Fortunately, my heart was comforted by the children, also and thank god very present: from the little girls dressed as princesses to the young boys playing the knights in shiny armours, all of them were living their nightly fairy tale, and with their eyes filled with wonder, they’d go meet the heroines of the moment. It was beautiful. It was so beautiful to see this sweet youth and splendid insouciance. I personally live with it as much as I can, and I would love to know more adults impregnated with it. It’s magic.al It’s wonderfully and simply magical.

‘Magical’ is also the word one could use to talk about the amazing creations of Laurent Crépeau, worn by the candidates in the election. Colourful and refined, their dresses enchanted us all.

This election was also marked by the presence of Camille Cerf, Miss France 2015, and Janyce Guillot, Miss Burgundy 2014.

A few words about Camille…

Crowned Miss France 2015 in December 2014, Camille has been since the beginning one of my favourite candidates and I was so happy to see her win at the end of the ceremony.

This year, Camille postponed her third year at a business school in Lille so as to live her fairy-tale-like princess-y dream well wide-awake. At 20, she’s also been classified among the first 15 Misses in the Miss World election. Not too bad, eh?!

Finally, she’s a very committed young lady, who takes advantages of her Miss France year to take part into as many charity operations as possible, as far as cancer treatment is concerned. We couldn’t love her more ;)!

Beauty competitions in general: what I think about them…

I must admit I admire the organisers of such contests a lot but there some things that keep on bothering me…

The first one is the predominant criterion of the votes, which in my opinion remains the external physical appearance. Although I accept to see that it’s not the only one, it is nonetheless – I think – the main criterion in the election of a Miss. And what kind of message is given then?!

The second thing that always bothers me a little is the fact that such an event, in the same way that the Miss Plus Size beauty competition does but just the opposite, promotes bodies, which are not always very healthy, and behaviours & lifestyles, which can sometimes harm one’s health.

So as I had already mentioned it in my post about the election of Miss Plus Size France 2015, ‘YES, I find plump and chubby women pretty just like I think thin and svelte ones are beautiful too. I’m just trying to say that there’s plump and plump (just like there’s thin and thin)’.

In short, I’m not really in favour of beauty competitions, mainly for the two reasons I’ve previously mentioned… However, I keep my little girl spirit and I remain a child at heart, and I can’t help but have my eyes filled with wonder when I find myself in front of those daily, nightly, or even yearly princesses, because they convey a very beautiful and powerful message that is the necessity to dream.